8 tips for better watering technique | Jack Wallington
1) Water deeply
When it’s hot and sunny it’s tempting to zip around the garden watering everything but beware, most ...
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Once A Year And This Is It
 Once a year we have spring in Michigan, and this is it. Ha. Let that big talk on my part sink in a little. I am not a...
Review: Wikomo solar deer repeller | Jack Wallington
We live surrounded by fields and woodland in which lots of roe deer live. Deer have been demonised by gardeners but I li...
The Winter/Holiday Season at Detroit Garden Works
After an intensely re-imagined and heartfelt few weeks, all of the materials new and old we have available for winter an...
Horticulture industry bans corporations digging up precious habitats to make compost | Jack Wallington
The Government has, at long last, banned the home use of compost made from precious peatland habitats purely for the pro...
Why it’s time to ban non-organic pesticides from sale to the general public | Jack Wallington
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When I first started studying horticulture professionally in 2015, I was ...
The importance and benefits of keeping fallen leaves around plants | Jack Wallington
One of the pieces of advice the gardening world has got wrong over the years is about picking up fallen leaves from arou...
Sustainable plant nurseries | Jack Wallington
I have always bought my plants from as many independent nurseries as I can, the passionate, talented growers who make ou...
Allotment plan 2023 | Jack Wallington
We took on our new allotment in Yorkshire in February 2021 and, with almost two full growing seasons now behind us, I’m ...
How to grow Brussels sprouts organically and cook them | Jack Wallington
I used to have a mild apathy toward Brussels sprouts, boiled and soggy, I can’t say I’d’ve rushed out to grow them… unti...